Michael Stanton

A dark lord who takes snuff.

A dragon with arthritis.
A griffon prone to colds.

YES. ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT @ROLENA-HATFIELD

Princess Academy sounds fascinating. And the surroundings symbol is a really good idea. And…

It’s not so easy for our brave, courageous hero to walk around with their great-grandmother’s lace croquet pillow and still look fearless.

That so totally made me laugh.

Okay, I think this topic merits reintroducing. 🙂

New thought on this. Sometimes, symbols can be used to actually tell the story.
Let me explain. I’ll use an example because I have no idea if this kind of… thing… has a technical term.

Say we have a fantasy world where each and every single person has a candle— lit and burning from the…[Read more]

Exactly.

Hey I just wanna say something really quick.

If you want to write good books, read good books. You can learn twice as much from reading one well-written novel than from reading a dozen books on how to write that kind of novel.

I would not even be writing today if my parents hadn’t seen to it that I had almost endless resources of high quality…[Read more]

A hangman who always dreamed of making his living as a jester.

An army of glow worms?

THAT… would be totally creepy. Especially if you had to fight in the dark… *shudder*

Yes! That is one of my absolute favorite verses, @gretald.

Ooh— and an ugly elf. 😛

A hero with a peg leg, eye-patch, and a golden tooth.

Do it @Daeus. Do it.

An assassin who knits while waiting for victims to show up.

That actually reminds me of Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. 🙂

You guys are way above my head. *resolves to quietly stalk topic and keep her mouth shut so as not to display her deplorable ignorance*

A maiden in a tower as the villain.

… Yeeeessssssssssss … and the hero frog pulls her out of the tower by her hair.

@Daeus write the thing. Seriously, write it.

A blacksmith with an affinity for poetry. A talking tree who plays Paganini on the violin. An ogre who likes chocolate cake. An evil queen who likes to host elegant tea par…[Read more]

Evil dragons with long teeth who are scared of the dark.

No, I actually agree to some extent with that @Daeus. What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them.…[Read more]

Exactly @Daeus. Exactly.

I might— just a quick suggestion. Work with your villain a little. Why does he want to control the nine powers? Is it just because POWER and PRESTIGE? Is it just because he’s SOOOOOO EEEEEVIL?

You can make him more complicated and interesting than that, I know. 😉